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Ecology: the science of interactions. I-05. Selection as the cause of adaptiveness in biosystems
Evolution of organisms is linked to their reproduction. Adapted organisms spread, unadapted — disappear. Can an object evolve that doesn't create copies of itself, but simply changes its states? Yes. An example can be the complication of the brain of …
StatOracle–03 Tool: The R Language (Environment)
The R language will serve as the foundation for all further work in this course; what characteristics determined its selection?
Ecology: the biology of interaction. IV-13. Gause's competitive exclusion principle
In 1931–1935, the young Soviet biologist Georgii Franzovych Gause attempted to experimentally verify the competition equations derived by V. Volterra. Gause understood that for experiments in population biology, the simplest organisms are well suited: they require a very small amount …
Ecology: Biology of Interaction. VI-18. Dies irae
As a conclusion to the section devoted to human ecology (and the ecology course as a whole), the authors for many years asked students to answer the questions proposed in this section and then discuss those answers. There is no …
Ecology: Biology of Interaction. VI-16. Scenarios of the Future
Let us consider two questions of fundamental importance. First: can we influence the probabilities of different scenarios for the development of humanity and the biosphere? Most likely yes. In any case, we have a broad arsenal of actions that can …
Ecology: biology of interaction. VI-20. (supplement) Principles of rational ecological ethics
Morality (from Lat. moralis — moral) is a set of culturally conditioned norms that determine which actions are socially approved, appropriate, and correct. The concept «ethics» (Greek ethos — custom, character) was introduced by Aristotle to characterize the properties...
Ecology: the Biology of Interaction. VI-21. (Supplement) Fear of GM Products (and a Few Words about Democracy)
One of the topics that attracts significant attention from conservation organizations and amateur ecologists is the issue of transgenic or genetically modified (GM) organisms, as well as food products produced from them. So what, does a person have the right …
Ecology: Biology of Interaction. VI-23. (Supplement) Mechanisms of Behaviour in Humans and Other Animals
A remarkable feature of the model of reality constructed by the human mind is that this model includes an image of the person themselves (a phenomenon called reflection, or self-mirroring). A person identifies with the image of the «self» that …
Ecology: biology of interaction. VI-12. Global climate change
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